and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth; he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.

In famine he will deliver you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.

you should fear the sword yourselves; for wrath will bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that there is judgment.”

However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.

to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.

But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; it does not shy away from the sword.

It ranks first among the works of God, yet its Maker can approach it with his sword.

The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.